[DM-MUG] NikkiUSA: Laptops for our troops???

[Victoria L. Herring]

>from a friend of mine.



>Hello everyone,
>
>Nikki Mendicino is a high school senior and vocal advocate for military
>troops and veterans from the Pittsburgh area. She's spoken at Rolling
>Thunder rallies in Washington on Memorial Days for the past several years.
>
>I just received the message, quoted below, from her mailing list.
>
>Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>My first thought was to see if Apple would either sell or donate some of its
>refurbished iBooks.
>
>Any thoughts on this would be appreciated. You can either post your ideas
>here or send them directly to Nikki. (Just tell her I relayed this to you.)
>
>--WA
>  Forwarded Message
>From: "Nikki" <mendicino.usa at verizon.net>
>Reply-To: nikkiusa-owner at yahoogroups.com
>Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 00:08:42 +0000
>To: nikkiusa at yahoogroups.com
>Subject: NikkiUSA: Laptops for our troops???
>
>I've got a request from Iraq and I'm not too sure where to direct this
>or what to do. Does anyone know if there are any businesses,
>corporations, or groups, that offer used/discarded laptops to our
>troops?? I've got one request in particular and I would really like to
>see if we can't gather up a few laptops to send them......any
>thoughts??? Anything that you can do to help with this would be
>greatly appreciated!! In particular this is for a Marine unit that has
>just been deployed and they won't be returning for fourteen months!!!
>If you wouldn't mind, would you please send this out to all of your
>email lists and groups?? Hope to hear from you with some great
>suggestions!!!!
>
>~Nikki~
>A friend to all Vets
>and PROUD of it!!!!!

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